Samsung goes after HTC deal to undercut Apple-filing (Reuters)

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Jordan protesters call for "downfall of the regime"

AMMAN (Reuters) - Thousands of demonstrators chanted the Arab Spring slogan "the people want the downfall of the regime" in Jordan on Friday, although a day billed as the culmination of three days of occasionally violent protests passed off largely in peace.

The staunch U.S. ally has so far largely avoided the street unrest that has swept across the Middle East over the past two years, but a decision this week to raise fuel prices led to demonstrations that raised the specter of long-term instability.

The mainly urban Muslim Brotherhood announced on Friday it was joining the protests, lending the voice of the country's largest opposition movement to demonstrations which had previously mainly been focused on rural and tribal areas.

Friday's demonstration near the main Husseini Mosque in downtown Amman was peaceful, with unarmed police separating the demonstrators denouncing King Abdullah from a smaller crowd chanting in support of the monarch.

"Go down Abdullah, go down," the main crowd of about 3,000 protesters chanted as police, some in riot gear, largely stayed away from crowd.

"Raising prices is like playing with fire," said one banner.

Abdullah cancelled a visit to London he had been due to make next week, Britain's Foreign Office said, without giving further details.

Witnesses said other Friday protests also ended peacefully in the northern city of Irbid and in restive southern towns of Karak, Tafila and Maan, dispelling fears of wider civil unrest.

"The government succeeded in frightening people of chaos and many people were discouraged by what they see as the alternative, as chaos," said Lamis Andoni, a political analyst.

Protests had turned violent in impoverished towns across the kingdom since Wednesday when the government imposed a hike in the price of fuel. Unemployed youths and demonstrators have attacked police stations, closed roads with burnt cars and torched government buildings. One protester was killed on Thursday as a crowed tried to storm a police station in Irbid.

Instability in Jordan would come at a dangerous time for the region, when Syria's war risks leaping borders and Israel is bombing Islamist-run Gaza.

Most of the civil unrest has taken place in outlying areas inhabited by tribes, Jordan's original inhabitants who now form a minority outnumbered by Jordanians of Palestinian origin.

The tribes supply the army and security forces with recruits and form the backbone of support for the ruling Hashemite dynasty. They are seen as wary of the prospect of democratic reforms that would cost them privileges and state jobs.

The Brotherhood are rivals to the tribes for power, and their decision to back protests signaled discontent spreading, although senior Brotherhood figures did not appear in person.

"King Abdullah should take note of the situation by going back on the decision to raise prices. The Jordanian people are unable to shoulder more burdens," Brotherhood leader Sheikh Hamam Said said in a statement ahead of the protests.

OPPOSITION SEEKS REFORM

The slogan "the people want the downfall of the regime" has emerged as the main chant of Arab Spring demonstrations that toppled autocrats from Tunisia to Yemen, in many cases bringing to power elected Islamists allied to the Brotherhood.

In Jordan, an opposition of liberals and Islamists has generally sought reforms, rather than the overthrow of the 50-year-old king, in power since 1999.

A friend of the West, the monarch is seen by many Jordanians as a bulwark of stability, balancing the interests of native tribes and the increasingly assertive Palestinian majority.

Abdullah accepted constitutional changes in August that devolved some of his powers to parliament, paving the way for a prime minister emerging from a parliamentary majority rather than one handpicked by him. However, urban politicians say he has been constrained by the tribes and slow to adopt reforms.

The Brotherhood is planning to boycott a parliamentary election set for January, arguing that rules were designed to safeguard tribal power by giving too many seats to rural areas.

Like many Arab states, Jordan has used government subsidies to appease the masses with cheap food and fuel, only to court unrest when the cash runs out.

Lifting the subsidies "deprives Jordanians of the minimum requirements of a decent living," Said said. "The King should speed reforms that restore power to the people to allow it put the corrupt on trial and restore embezzled money to the people."

(Additional reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Tim Castle in London; Editing by Peter Graff and Giles Elgood)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/protesters-call-downfall-regime-jordan-capital-105717088.html

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2 missing, 4 badly burned in Gulf platform fire

NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? The Coast Guard was searching Friday for two workers missing after a fire erupted on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, sending an ominous black plume of smoke into the air reminiscent of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion that transformed the oil industry and life along the coast.

The fire, begun while workers were using a torch to cut an oil line, critically injured at least four workers who had burns over much of their bodies.

The images were eerily similar to the massive oil spill that killed 11 workers and took months to bring under control. It came a day after BP agreed to plead guilty to a raft of charges in the 2010 spill and pay a record $4.5 billion in penalties.

There were a few important differences with the Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 workers and began one of the nation's biggest environmental disasters: Friday's fire was put out within hours, rather than burning for more than a day and causing the rig to collapse and sink. It's a production platform in shallow water, rather than an exploratory drilling rig looking for new oil on the seafloor almost a mile deep.

Still, the accident was a vivid reminder of the dangerous business of offshore drilling and the risk it poses to the Gulf of Mexico's ecosystem and shoreline.

A sheen of oil about a half-mile long and 200 yards wide was reported on the Gulf surface, but officials believe it came from residual oil on the platform.

"It's not going to be an uncontrolled discharge from everything we're getting right now," Coast Guard Capt. Ed Cubanski said.

Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Bobby Nash said late Friday that monitoring continues to show no oil is coming from the well.

Eleven people were taken by helicopter to area hospitals or for treatment on shore by emergency medical workers.

Taslin Alfonzo, spokeswoman for West Jefferson Medical Center in suburban New Orleans, said four injured workers arrived in critical condition with second- and third-degree burns over much of their bodies.

Two were sent by ambulance to the burn center at Baton Rouge General Medical Center. Two others were to be sent later.

A spokeswoman for Terrebonne General Medical Center in Houma said the hospital was treating two workers who were in good condition. Several other workers were taken to Lady of the Sea General Hospital in Cut Off. None was listed in critical condition, according to a spokeswoman, who wouldn't specify how many patients the hospital was treating.

The production platform owned by Houston-based Black Elk Energy is about 25 miles southeast of Grand Isle, on the western side of the Mississippi River delta. The Coast Guard said 24 people were aboard the platform at the time of the fire.

Cubanski said the platform appeared to be structurally sound. He said only about 28 gallons of oil were in the broken line on the platform.

After the April 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon, that rig burned for about 36 hours before collapsing and sinking to the Gulf floor. The depth of the well blow-out ? a mile below the Gulf surface ? proved to be a major challenge in bringing the disaster under control.

The Black Elk platform is in 56 feet of water ? a depth much easier for engineers to manage if a spill had happened.

A federal official in Washington said a team of environmental enforcement inspectors was flying to the scene.

David Smith, a spokesman for the Interior Department's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, said the team was dispatched from a Gulf Coast base by helicopter soon after the Coast Guard was notified of the emergency. Smith said the team would scan for any evidence of oil spilling and investigate the cause of the explosion.

"This is yet another reminder that our work on oil drilling safety is not complete," said U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee.

Black Elk is an independent oil and gas company headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company's website says it holds interests in properties in Texas and Louisiana waters, including 854 wells on 155 platforms.

The company said on its website that "our thoughts and prayers are with those who are impacted." The company said it was still collecting information and would issue a statement later.

The spill from BP's Macondo well, about 50 miles southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River on the east side of the river delta, dumped millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf. It fouled beaches, marshes and rich seafood grounds.

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Associated Press Writer Kevin McGill in New Orleans contributed to this story.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/2-missing-4-badly-burned-gulf-platform-fire-215309492--finance.html

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BP To Pay ?2.8bn Over Gulf Of Mexico Disaster

Two employees of BP face manslaughter charges over the Gulf of Mexico spill, as the oil giant agrees to pay a record ?2.8bn fine.

Legal papers allege that well site leaders Robert Kaluza and Donald Vidrine acted negligently in their supervision of key safety tests performed on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig before an explosion killed 11 workers in April 2010.

David Rainey, who was BP's vice president of exploration for the Gulf of Mexico, also faces charges of obstruction of Congress and false statements.

Earlier on Thursday, BP agreed to pay ?2.8bn over six years after reaching a deal with the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

The company will plead guilty to 14 criminal charges relating to the disaster.

Thick oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill floats on the surface of the water and coats the marsh wetlands in Bay Jimmy near Port Sulphur, Louisiana.Thick oil from the spill pictured in Louisiana after the disaster

"I want to be clear that today's resolution does mark the end of our efforts, and our criminal investigation remains ongoing," US Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters.

Bob Dudley, chief executive of BP, said: "We apologise for our role in the accident and as today's resolution with the US government further reflects, we have accepted responsibility for our actions."

Under the deal, BP has pleaded guilty to 11 felony counts of misconduct or neglect and three misdemeanour counts - including one under the Clean Water Act and one for obstructing Congress.

BP will pay ?2.5bn to the DoJ in instalments over five years. It will pay an additional ?331m to the SEC over a period of three years.

The oil company will make the first payment of ?110m to the SEC this year.

The group has already paid out more than ?24bn relating to the oil spill.

Mr Dudley said: "All of us at BP deeply regret the tragic loss of life caused by the Deepwater Horizon accident as well as the impact of the spill on the Gulf Coast region."

He added: "Since the spill, we have worked hard to rebuild confidence in the company.

"We take seriously not only our commitment to safety and operational excellence but also our communications with stakeholders, including the public, the government and our investors."

The settlement removes some of the uncertainty hanging over the stock since the disaster, but it does not cover outstanding civil claims against the group.

BP said it will "continue to vigorously defend itself" against civil claims and allegations of gross negligence.

"We are open to settlements, but only on reasonable terms," said Mr Dudley.

The settlement does not include individual civil claims or any compensation sought from individual states along the Gulf Coast.

BP said, as part of the settlement, it had agreed to improve safety at its Gulf of Mexico drilling operations and appoint two monitors to review safety and ethics at the company.

The group has struggled to repair its reputation after the Deepwater explosion, despite paying out billions of dollars so far to cover costs and claims.

It has been selling assets as part of its pledge to raise cash to pay the costs of the Gulf of Mexico disaster.

It has recently sold a Texas City refinery, five oil and gas fields in the US Gulf of Mexico and its Bristol-based liquified petroleum gas (LPG) distribution arm.

Source: http://news.sky.com/story/1012011

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De-stress with a Pet: Your Cool Tool #41 ? Practically Enlightened ...

Murphy will be turning 15 soon. If he were my son I?d be worried about his driving. But because Murph is a Labrador Retriever mix he?s approaching the end of his life.

You wouldn?t mistake him for a pup if you met him. His eyes are cloudy, his walk a bit stiff, and his hearing diminished.

Recently it seems he?s experiencing some cognitive issues. Is there such a thing as doggy Alzheimer?s? He gets disoriented while taking a walk off leash in our woods. He actually barked the other day, something he rarely does.

He?s excited to be fed, but then he stares at his bowl for a while. We?ve changed foods; even giving him dried cat food to encourage him to eat. And yet he continues the staring process. Eventually he eats it all with gusto.

The other day I was being his cheerleader. I kept saying, ?go, go? trying to encourage him to eat. But instead of eating he ?went, went.? I switched to yelling, ?stop, stop.?

Even while I was cleaning up dog poop I had to laugh. Since then I?ve only said, ?eat, eat? so he doesn?t get confused.

Yes, it can be frustrating when your pet poops where he?s not supposed to or eats something you wanted intact. But overall owning a pet is good de-stressor and health promoter.

Get a Pet

Okay, I know some of you are saying, ? I?m allergic to pet dander or I don?t like animals.? Then this article isn?t for you.

But if you?ve been thinking about a pet, read on.

If you already own a pet (or two or three or?) you?ll be patting yourself on the back for your smart decision after you read this article.

Walk your dog, not your fish.

Here are a few of the things owning a pet can do for you. You get different benefits from different pets. You?ll probably walk your dog more often that say, your fish. If you?re looking for a particular benefit you might want to do some research first.

  • Lift your mood.
  • Lower your cholesterol.
  • Increase your chances of getting exercise.
  • Lower your blood pressure.
  • Decrease anxiety.
  • Lower chances of heart disease and heart attack.
  • Decrease pain.
  • Relieve stress.

?And my personal favorites:

  • Entertainment.
  • Personal lap warmer.
  • Unconditional love.

Your favorite benefits?

In addition to Murph our family pets include cats and goats. What kind of pets do you have?

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Source: http://practicallyenlightenedbusiness.com/2012/11/de-stress-with-a-pet-your-cool-tool-41/

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Nintendo mania will claim your kids, 1991 newscast warns

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Let's take a moment to harness the powers of YouTube and travel back in time.?The year is 1991. The affliction of the moment: "Video mania." The?perpetrator: Nintendo and its "hot new toys."

(Ahem, press play on the video above)?Look at those graphics? Look at those game controllers. Look at that ... hair!

In an appropriate bit of timing, the?above video?time-capsule?has been making the rounds today. It was 21 years ago and parents everywhere (or at least news broadcasters) were fretting?over the?arrival?of the?Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

Meanwhile, here in the year 2012,?Nintendo is preparing once again to?launch a "hot new toy." The?Wii U arrives in stores on Sunday. But this time around, it'll cost $300 to $350 to own this machine. Of course, not to worry, for the money?Nintendo "promises better sound, pictures and adventures."

But here's the question on everyone's minds:?Will the Wii U cause America's?children to once-again?suffer from that most dangerous affliction -- Nintend-pendence? Only time will tell.

-?Via BuzzFeed

Winda Benedetti?writes?about video?games for NBC?News. You can follow her tweets about games and other things?on Twitter?here?@WindaBenedetti?and you can?follow her?on?Google+.?Meanwhile, be sure to check?out the?IN-GAME?FACEBOOK PAGE?to discuss the day's?gaming news and reviews.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/ingame/nintendo-dependent-children-get-counselling-1991-1C7096610

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Franklin Street Properties

Franklin Street Properties Corp. (FSP - Snapshot Report) is a Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) office REIT that has returned 13.8% year to date and offers a healthy dividend yield of 7.1%. Furthermore, a forward P/E multiple of 11.35 and an impressive P/B multiple of 1.02 offer a promising value proposition to investors moving forward.

Strong Third Quarter

Franklin Street Properties reported solid third quarter results on October 30, with a 21.5% year-over-year growth in total revenues to $41.8 million thanks to the incremental impact of accretive acquisitions. Increased leasing activities during the quarter resulted in strong occupancy levels of 89.9%. With a suburban office portfolio where rental rates and occupancy remained fairly steady, the company expects to continue its growth momentum in the coming quarters as well.

Funds from operations (FFO) came in at $19.9 million, surpassing the year-ago tally by 21.3%. On a per share basis, FFO for the quarter was 24 cents, compared to 20 cents in the prior-year quarter and exceeding the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 4.4%.

Franklin Street Properties paid a dividend of 19 cents per share in the third quarter of 2012, which affirms a robust yield of 7.1%.

Rise in Earnings Momentum

Analysts have revised their earnings estimates upward for both 2012 and 2013. Over the past 30 days, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2012 increased 2.2% to 95 cents, implying a year-over-year spike of 9.2%. For 2013, the Zacks Consensus Estimate has advanced 7.4% to $1.01 over the same time period, representing a year-over-year rise of 6.8%.

Impressive Valuation

Although shares of Franklin Street Properties nosedived in late 2011, it recovered to a growth trajectory by early this year. Franklin Street Properties looks undervalued with a forward P/E multiple of 11.35 and a P/B multiple of 1.02.

Headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts, Franklin Street Properties primarily operates a portfolio of suburban office buildings, in addition to making select investments in central business district (CBD) properties and offering loans secured by mortgages on real estate assets. While its real estate operations include property acquisitions and disposals, secured financing, leasing, development and asset management services, its investment management subsidiary is involved in the structuring of real estate investments and broker/dealer services. Since its inception in 1997, Franklin Street Properties has deployed a disciplined approach to real estate property investments that reflect the inherent high quality of its asset class within the broader capital markets. The company currently has a market cap of $916.5 million.


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Man put to death for Texas woman's 2001 slaying

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) ? A registered sex offender was put to death Wednesday for the rape, robbery and slaying of a woman abducted from a San Antonio bus stop 11 years ago.

Ramon Torres Hernandez was one of three people convicted in the killing of Rosa Maria Rosado, 37, who was pulled into a car Hernandez was driving after she refused to let go of her purse during a drive-by robbery.

Hernandez, 41, told a family member he was "sorry for putting you through all this" after a warden asked if he wanted to make a final statement.

"Tell everybody I love them," the condemned inmate said, directing his words at his brother who was standing nearby in the death chamber and watching through a window that separated him from Hernandez.

Glancing briefly at relatives of his victim, Hernandez said: "I'm very sorry for all the pain." Then he urged other prisoners on death row to "keep fighting; don't give up."

He took several breaths as the lethal dose of pentobarbital took effect, then began snoring quietly. Within a minute, all movement stopped.

His time of death was announced as 6:38 p.m. CST, 26 minutes after the drug began flowing into his arms.

Hernandez became the 14th inmate executed this year in Texas. Another inmate, Preston Hughes III, is scheduled for lethal injection Thursday for a 1988 double slaying in Houston.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused last month to review Hernandez's death sentence and a late appeal filed earlier Wednesday was rejected by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Hernandez, who was on parole at the time of his arrest in Rosado's death, also was a suspect in the slayings of three teenagers and a 12-year-old girl.

According to court records, Hernandez told police that he was driving around San Antonio with his pregnant girlfriend and a friend from prison looking for someone to rob when they saw Rosado at a bus stop on March 31, 2001.

Hernandez said his friend, Santos Minjares, grabbed Rosado's purse. When she wouldn't let go, he pulled her into the car. They taped Rosado's mouth shut, covered her head with a towel and rented a motel room, where they raped and eventually killed her.

Five days later, Hernandez's girlfriend, Asel Abdygapparova, contacted police and led them to the body. Police tied Hernandez to the crime in part with a shovel that he sent Abdygapparova to buy to bury Rosado. Her body was found in a shallow grave.

Hernandez and Minjares ended up on death row, where Minjares died in January of septic shock and multiple organ failure. Abdygapparova, a University of Texas at San Antonio graduate student from Kazakhstan, received a life sentence. She gave birth in jail following her arrest.

At the time of Hernandez's arrest, he was a registered sex offender on parole from an 18-year sentence after admitting in court to a burglary where a woman was raped.

Jurors at his 2002 capital murder trial learned Hernandez also was linked by DNA to the 1994 sexual assaults and slayings of Sarah Gonzales, 13, and her cousin, Priscilla Almares, 12, in the same San Antonio area where Rosado was abducted.

"We're not cruel people, we don't want to have to watch somebody die," Brenda Ayala, Almares' sister, said after witnessing Hernandez's execution. "It doesn't give us happiness at all. If anything, I feel sorry for his family and they're going to have to feel what we felt when we lost our loved ones."

He was a suspect in the killings of two 15-year-old girls west of San Antonio as well. They disappeared within days of the Gonzales and Almares slayings.

Hughes, set to follow Hernandez to the death chamber, was convicted of the 1988 stabbing deaths of Shandra Charles, 15, and her 3-year-old cousin Marcell Taylor. They were attacked in a field behind an apartment complex where Hughes lived.

Hughes, 46, claims police planted evidence and coerced his confession. He and his appeals attorney, who Hughes has sought to fire, have multiple appeals pending in state and federal courts to put off Thursday's planned execution.

Police responding to a passer-by's call about a body in the field found Charles still alive. The teen told an officer that "Preston" had tried to rape her. Authorities went to the nearby apartments and determined that Hughes was the only resident with that first name.

Hughes, who knew Charles through a friend, denied any involvement in her death. However, he made statements while in police custody that implicated him, one of his trial attorneys recalled this week.

"We did what we could with what we had. ... I could say he convicted himself," defense attorney Ellis McCullough said.

But Hughes has insisted he is innocent. "The fact is I didn't kill anyone," he told The Associated Press last month from death row.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/man-put-death-texas-womans-2001-slaying-004426137.html

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Zynga CEO Mark Pincus 'Near Tears' - Business Insider

In public, CEO Mark Pincus has been ebullient about Zynga's long-term potential, despite its plummeting stock price and steady exodus of talent.

But in private meetings, the social games maker's leader has been downcast?"near tears," reports the Wall Street Journal, with employees berating him about the company's lack of a strategic vision and poorly thought-out schemes to boost morale.

To help Pincus, Zynga investor Kleiner Perkins sent in Intuit chairman Bill Campbell, a well-known coach to Silicon Valley executives like Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt and a member of Apples' board of directors. The firm's partners weren't sure he'd take Campbell's advice, the Journal reports:

Mr. Campbell, a technology veteran who has coached Silicon Valley CEOs such as Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt, had been called in by Zynga investor and venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to advise Mr. Pincus as the social games company's stock plunged and some of its online games lost traction. Some Kleiner Perkins partners warned Mr. Campbell that he might not make much progress.

But at the meeting, where the two men discussed Zynga's management challenges, Mr. Pincus was open to advice. Mr. Pincus "was discouraged," said Mr. Campbell, adding that the CEO was near tears. He "felt terrible about what was happening; he felt the turmoil."

At an offsite meeting, Jonathan Liu, a director of product at Zynga, said he was "almost yelling" at Pincus over the company's lack of an articulated strategy.

A plan to hand out stock options flopped, with some employees asking to refuse the grants because they felt they were insultingly small.

Recently, Pincus has shaken up the company's management, in part to make up for executive departures and in part to reorganize the company to tackle missed opportunities in mobile gaming. COO John Schappert left in August. And this week, CFO Dave Wehner left for a finance position at Facebook, and David Ko, formerly Zynga's chief mobile officer, was promoted to chief operations officer.?

Read the full story at the Wall Street Journal >

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/zynga-ceo-mark-pincus-near-tears-2012-11

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Top 5 Reasons to Update Your Website | 1Eighty Design Blog

Your website isn?t something you setup one time and then forget about.? Updating your website can attract new customers and help with your search engine rankings.? Show your customers you?ve got your ducks in a row with a fresh design that shows your company is on top of things.? Here are to top 5 reasons to update your site:

  1. First Impressions are Crucial:
    These days most people research companies online before conducting business with them. Whether that consists of checking out your menu or reviewing the specs of the products you sell ? chances are they?re seeing your website (and your competitors) first.? Nothing screams ?behind the times? on the Internet like a stale website design.? After all, if your site is out-of-date what does that say about your business?? Be sure to impress them with an eye-catching, easy-to-use website.
  2. Staying Competitive:
    It?s important to make sure your online presence is better than (or at least equal to) the competition. Potential customers are researching multiple companies online to choose where they?ll do business.?? Give them useful information they can quickly find to make their decision easy.
  3. Diverse Presence and Availability:
    Customers are now viewing your website on platforms other than PC?s, so make sure it?s mobile-friendly.? They?re also spreading information through a variety of social channels, so it?s important to provide easy ways to share your content.
  4. Your Evolving Business:
    You?ve probably started selling new products or offering different services since your website launched.? Potential customers may hear that you have a new service, but if it?s not on your website they may never call.? Make sure you are giving correct and relevant information.
  5. Your Site, Your Control:
    Stop paying for basic updates to your website that takes days to implement.? A content management system can be utilized that allows you to update your content when and how you want using simple, easy-to-use forms. ?Search engines are drawn to new content, and they assign better rankings to sites that keep things fluid and current.

About Kevin

My name is Kevin Hamstra, I'm the owner of 1Eighty Design. I graduated from Purdue University in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Graphics Technology. I've been developing websites, web applications and print materials for over 10 years now. I love what I do and enjoy meeting new clients and helping them turn their image around!


Source: http://blog.1eightydesign.com/2012/11/15/top-5-reasons-to-update-your-website/

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